Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Air travel is likely to become even more frustrating than usual, starting Sunday. The Federal Aviation Administration has begun furloughs resulting from mandatory budget cuts for some of its 47,000 agency employees.It...

ABC News(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- A sign at the Birmingham airport fell on a family on Friday, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring other family members.The child, Luke Bresette, was killed Friday afternoon when a large information sign, weighing an esti...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A plane veering off the runway might frazzle most pilots, but not the one flying Southwest Flight 4695.On a recording obtained by LiveATC.net, the pilot calmly says to the control tower, “Tower, 4695, we ...

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SENDAI, Japan) -- Officials closed one of northern Japan's major airports Monday upon the discovery of an unexploded bomb, believed to be from World War II, near a runway.Flight arrivals and departures were ca...

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SENDAI, Japan) -- Officials closed one of northern Japan's major airports Monday upon the discovery of an unexploded bomb, believed to be from World War II, near a runway.Flight arrivals and departures were ca...

Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Transportation Security Administration is taking so-called body scanners that use a specific type of technology out of major airports and moving them to less-busy ones. But it is not making the change because o...

Fair Use(ROME) -- A photo that appears to be of a man going through an airport X-ray machine is making the rounds on the Internet.A Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a baggage belt at Rome’s Fiumicino airport and traveled 160 feet before being ide...

Obtained by ABC News(ST. GEORGE, Utah) -- An airline captain who entered a small Utah airport early this morning and damaged a SkyWest Airlines jetliner, a terminal building and some parked vehicles had been sought by authorities in the death of his gi...

FIle photo. Hemera/Thinkstock(LONDON) -- The entire contents of Plymouth airport in England will go up for auction this summer.Plymouth airport opened for business in the 1930s, and was shut down last December after its leaseholders, a property develo...

Photodisc/Digital Vision/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- A 29-year-old-man was taken into police custody Thursday morning at the Philadelphia airport after attempting to board a flight to San Francisco while carrying items that could have been assembled in...

ABC News(OKLAHOMA CITY) -- Authorities in Oklahoma City are investigating an incident in which surveillance footage shows police officers apparently dragging a man face-down out of the Will Rogers World Airport.The incident occurred on Feb. 20, when Ja...

ABC News(ATLANTA) -- A Delta airplane sustained significant damage when it veered off a taxiway early Tuesday morning while undergoing maintenance at the world's busiest airport in Atlanta, local ABC News affiliate WSB-TV reports.According to a Federal...

Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The Transportation Security Administration said it picked up 1,306 guns at airport checkpoints last year.That’s four guns a day. And that doesn’t include the spear guns and bombs.Last week alone the TSA confis...

File photo. iStockphoto/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- The man who disrupted Philadelphia's airport by darting onto the runway in his car, reached speeds up to 100 mph as a plane was about to land, according to an affidavit filed by an arresting FBI agen...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Philadelphia International Airport was closed briefly Thursday after a drunken man drove his SUV through a fence and onto two runways, leading police on a high-speed chase, sparking a terrorism scare and forcing...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- A Massachusetts woman who flew home from Las Vegas this week says an airport security officer took her frosted cupcake because he thought its vanilla-bourbon icing could be a “security risk.”Rebecca Hai...